GAPA meets

This month GAPA is especially proud to speak to Mbizo Chirasha – an acclaimed poet from Zimbabwe who focuses his work on human rights, and holds a secure place in the African arts scene. Mbizo is an exiled Zimbabwéan performance poet,… Continue Reading →

By Kirsty Flockhart GAPA: Would you mind starting by introducing yourself? Kaanchi Chopra: Yeah, sure. I am an 18-year-old artivist from India. I imagine, I feel, I sketch, I create, I enjoy. I am passionate about using art for social… Continue Reading →

By Kirsty Flockhart Patrick Shields is a young Australian artist who currently lives and works in Sydney. His art practice explores the field between illustration and collage. The works usually feature detailed cubist-style deconstruction of human faces and often female… Continue Reading →

By Laurie Wdowiak GAPA’s artist of the month is Lucas Charlie Rose, a Montreal-based, French-born hip-hop artist. Lucas Charlie Rose’s music is entangled with his fight for the rights of black trans people. He plays with a wide range of… Continue Reading →

This month, GAPA had the pleasure to meet Sonia Jewell, a rootless and self-proclaimed nomadic thinker and aspiring film-maker. Sonia’s work revolves around surrealist visual art, fragmentation, as well as sex and (cinematic) aestheticism – within these, she is inspired especially… Continue Reading →

We are starting this 2017 with an interview with artist and activist Magda Fabianczyk. Living in London but originally from Poland, she has been working with socially engaged practice – from food performances, direct actions, collaborations with local artists whom… Continue Reading →

Each month, we bring you an interview with an art activist who’s caught our eye. This month we talked to Leo Jac, a social artist based in Hong Kong with a background in arts and education. Her work usually touches on themes of… Continue Reading →

Interview by Emilie Labourey This month, GAPA meets Alice de Soultrait, a young French woman who worked with Al Rowwad, an arts and cultural society based in a Palestinian refugee camp in Bethlehem, West Bank. Aida camp is shielded on… Continue Reading →

GAPA is delighted to introduce you to Mazigh, a poet/activist of Amazigh origin from the town of Ifran in the Infusen (Nefusa) mountain region of Libya. Mazigh is the co-founder of TIRA for research and studies based in Tripoli. TIRA… Continue Reading →

A weekend of artivism in Paris with the WeVibes Festival From dreaming of organising a festival to getting major artists, organisations, and a prestigious venue to work with them, the team behind the WeVibes Festival held in Paris, France have… Continue Reading →